Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks ( born December 13, 1835 in Boston, Massachusetts, † January 23, 1893 ) was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America.
Life
Priests in Boston and Bishop
Brooks came from his father's side of the Puritan John Cotton and was a maternal great-grandson of Samuel Phillips, Jr., the founder of Phillips Academy in Andover.
After school, he studied at Harvard University and then from 1855 to 1859 at the Seminary in Alexandria. After his ordination to the priesthood, he became in 1859 Rector of the Church of the Advent in Philadelphia, before he became a priest in 1862 at the local Church of the Holy Trinity.
1869 he was appointed rector of Trinity Church congregation in Boston. During this time, the construction of the Trinity Church in Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson by the glass as well as the painter William Morris and Edward Burne -Jones in 1873 completed. In his position as parish priest he fell on especially by his views on the Low Church, which he included in sermons in churches of other denominations.
Brooks refused numerous other positions offered to him as 1881 Professor of Ethics at Harvard University and the Office of the Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, in which he was elected in 1886. Instead, he preferred in the congregation of Trinity Church to remain, to be there for the faith, particularly among young people who tried.
Ultimately, he took over but then in 1891 as the successor to Benjamin Henry Paddock the office of bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and held that post for two years until his death in 1893. Was succeeded in connecting William Lawrence.
Publications, influence and honors
Although Brooks only two years exercised the office of a bishop, was his influence on the Episcopal Church in particular through his numerous writings of great importance. To seinenen known publications include:
- Lectures on Preaching (New York, 1877)
- Sermons (2 volumes, 1878 and 1881)
- The Influence of Jesus 1879 (1879)
- Baptism and Confirmation (1880 )
- Sermons preached in English Churches (1883 ).
In addition, he was also known as a poet of hymns and wrote, among other things, the text to the Christmas carol " O Bethlehem, little town " ( O Little Town of Bethlehem ' ), which he wrote in 1865 after a visit to Bethlehem.
1885 awarded him the University of Oxford, a Doctor of Divinity (DD). Phillips Brooks was honored among other things, by his posthumous induction into the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in New York. Moreover, the welfare organization Phillips Brooks House Association is named after him as well as the Phillips Brooks School in Menlo Park and the Brooks School in North Andover.